Re: Testing removals for GTK 1.2 removal

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:24:44PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > + Moritz Muehlenhoff (Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:17:05 +0200):
> > 
> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:52:13AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >>> + Moritz Muehlenhoff (Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:05:38 +0200):
> > 
> >>>> Or maybe I'm misunderstanding you and uninstallable packages are removed
> >>>> automatically from testing?
> > 
> >>> On the contrary, it???s gtk1.2 and imlib that britney won???t remove from
> >>> testing as long as they have reverse dependencies in testing (ie.,
> >>> britney won???t let a removal to leave uninstallables around).
> > 
> >>> So the options indeed are doing a mass-removal by hand, and then
> >>> packages that get fixed get back in once they depend on gtk2; or to
> >>> delay the mass-removal, and only perform it after a reasonable period in
> >>> which gtk1.2 reverse dependencies have had some time to get ported.
> > 
> >> Well, that reasonable time frame were the last, umm, five years :-)
> > 
> >> Removing the remaining packages from testing rather speeds things up, e.g.
> >> gringotts has been fixed shortly after it was removed from testing a
> >> few days ago.
> > 
> > If Luk doesn't object, we'll do a mass-removal during May. CC'ing Luk.
> 
> I won't object as long as the kde transition is over by then
> (kdegraphics and kdebindings are involved) and the list of packages that
> will be removed is announced on the developers mailing list with Ccs to
> the maintainer addresses (<pkg>@packages.d.o).

I've sent that mail now that KDE has transitioned. The list of affected 
packages shrunk a bit since I sent it the first time:

icewm
linpopup
wmclockmon
cheops
codebreaker
gaby
dbmix
gcrontab
gbuffy
gcvs
gcx
geg
gman
gps
gqcam
gtkpool
libjsw
i2e
ledcontrol
mah-jong
mbrowse
predict
xemacs21
swami
xoscope
xscorch

Cheers,
        Moritz